Word: velvets
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...tales out of school. Best: In the Capitol rotunda, awaiting Their Majesties, members of Congress twitted stogy-chewing Vice President John Nance Garner about his formal duds, inquired what sort of curtsy he would drop when the big moment came. In response, reported Trout, the Vice President grasped two velvet ropes for support, did knee-bends until a "shhh" warned of Their Majesties' approach...
...chair) the Pope proceeded to the Basilica of St. John Lateran and the real business of the day. In a three-hour complicated ritual, he ascended and descended four Papal thrones, accepted two keys to the Lateran, gave his Cardinals special commemorative medals, laid an offering in a crimson velvet, gold-embroidered purse on the high altar. The long rite over, he appeared to the patient crowds on the balcony of the Basilica's portico. Mussolini's Italian guards struck up the papal hymn, the Pope's Palatine guards blared out the Fascist anthem, Giovanezza. The Pope...
...Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored crow's-feet on the front panels of gowns instead of velvet hood trimmings to distinguish separate orders of graduates...
...this is velvet, of course. The Major has a big and well-paid staff of 65, pays salaries of $50 to $100 a week to unit performers (now numbering about 100), foots the bill for musicians, producers, coaches, unit booking, management and traveling expenses. To each of the 20 or so amateurs chosen each week for the broadcast from among 500 selected applications he gives $10 and all the performer can eat on the evening of the broadcast. The Major's net is a secret closely guarded by the Major and his militantly loyal staff, but radio is agreed...
There were Rolls-Royces, Mercedes, Isotta Fraschinis, Fiats. Some had cowls of aluminum. Others had a veneer of satinwood. A few were plated all over with gold. There were purple, vermilion, lavender and orange limousines and sports models with velvet and satin upholstery...